Events

EXPO 2015– CASCINA TRIULZA, Milan, Italy

In the context of the Expo Milano 2015, OCP Policy Center and the Istituto Affairi Internazionali (IAI) are hosting a series of convening around one of the central themes of Expo 2015: Feeding the Planet. This series will consist of three events in which different stakeholders will discuss the link between food security and sustainable agricultural policies in the Mediterranean.

This event is the second of a series of convening organized by OCP Policy Center and IAI in the framework of the Expo Milano around one of the central themes of Expo 2015: Feeding the Planet.

At the outset of the new Sustainable Development Goals, food security remains one of the most urgent issues to tackle for actual and future generations. Although progress was made in the last decades, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that 805 million people were still chronically undernourished between 2012-2014. Food security, water management and climate change are some of the transnational issues that require a broad coordination of efforts from all actors and at different levels (global, regional, national and local). Globalisation is eroding the ability of nation-states to fulfil their public goals on their own and this international seminar aims at debating the paradigm shift needed to achieve food security and other key development objectives worldwide.

The first panel will discuss models of multi-level governance which distribute the decision-making authority across the sub and supranational level to address the issue of food security in an integrative way. The second panel will discuss the multi-actor approach necessary to attain sustainable development goals. Specifically, it will examine the ways the private sector, trough Public Private Partnerships, may overcome some difficulties of institutional stakeholders at providing public service and implementing their development agenda.

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